2011 Season underway
A lot of change for the team since I last blogged.
Renault sold their remaining shares in the team to the majority shareholder Genii
Lotus have agreed a 7 year title sponsorship deal with the team, and Renault a multi-year engine supply deal - so we have become the Lotus Renault GP Team - running in the iconic Black and Gold colours of the early Lotus years! Which means a great deal to me personally. Seeing Bruno Senna in a black and gold Lotus, with that iconic helmet colour, looking so much like his uncle Ayrton, was very emotive.
Pre-season our driver Robert Kubica was injured in a rallying accident and is missing at least the start of the season, we have found a very good replacement in Nick Heidfeld. Best wishes to Robert on a full recovery!
It was last year's rookie, who is with us again this year, (the Russian Vitaly Petrov who achieved a 3rd place podium finish for us in the first race of the year in Australia, which was a huge boost for us. Vitaly was clearly delighted with his first ever podium (and the first for a Russian). He came to the factory to tell us about his race and the entire factory broke into spontaneous applause (which is unusual from a hardened bunch of F1 workers :-)
On the IT front things are going well, we continue to focus on Reliability and Performance of the applications we develop and the services/infrastructure we provide
I'm looking forward to a strong season!
Renault sold their remaining shares in the team to the majority shareholder Genii
Lotus have agreed a 7 year title sponsorship deal with the team, and Renault a multi-year engine supply deal - so we have become the Lotus Renault GP Team - running in the iconic Black and Gold colours of the early Lotus years! Which means a great deal to me personally. Seeing Bruno Senna in a black and gold Lotus, with that iconic helmet colour, looking so much like his uncle Ayrton, was very emotive.
Pre-season our driver Robert Kubica was injured in a rallying accident and is missing at least the start of the season, we have found a very good replacement in Nick Heidfeld. Best wishes to Robert on a full recovery!
It was last year's rookie, who is with us again this year, (the Russian Vitaly Petrov who achieved a 3rd place podium finish for us in the first race of the year in Australia, which was a huge boost for us. Vitaly was clearly delighted with his first ever podium (and the first for a Russian). He came to the factory to tell us about his race and the entire factory broke into spontaneous applause (which is unusual from a hardened bunch of F1 workers :-)
On the IT front things are going well, we continue to focus on Reliability and Performance of the applications we develop and the services/infrastructure we provide
I'm looking forward to a strong season!
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